Collection: D. M. Black

D. M. Black is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Claiming Kindred (2011) and The Arrow Maker (2017). He edited Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? (2006) and is the author of Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective (2024). He is the translator of Dante's Purgatorio (2021) and Paradiso (2025) for NYRB Classics, the former of which won the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and lives in London.

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